Neil Armstrong's bag from moon landing could fetch $4 million Neil Armstrong 's giant leap for mankind onto the moon allowed him to make several small scoops there as well. Collecting lunar dust ...

More Information Dust-up over moon bag ends with a friendly relinquishing Carlson bought the bag "fair and square" for $995 at an online government auction, lawyers agreed.

A bag of moon dust from NASA’s Apollo 11 mission – which a woman bought for $995 in 2015 -- sold for $1.8 million at a Sotheby’s auction this week following an intense court battle.

This sample bag of lunar dust from the 1969 moon landing by the Apollo 11 crew was put up for auction in 2015 and bought by a collector in Inverness, Illinois. She sent it to NASA for testing.

Sotheby's New York said the dinner plate-sized bag could fetch up to $4 million when it goes on the auction block on July 20 -- the 48th anniversary of the Apollo 11's historic first moon landing.

But they couldn’t hold on to one bag of moon dust. The artifact – supposedly collected by astronaut Neil Armstrong – is the property of a Chicago lawyer, and now she plans to auction it off.

The lunar bag Neil Armstrong used to bring back the first moon dust samples in 1969 sold at auction for $1.8 million. The bag has had several owners over the past years.

On the 48th anniversary of humanity's first steps on the moon, the bag of lunar dust collected by Neil Armstrong has sold for $1.8 million. Most of the equipment used in the Apollo 11 mission is ...

NASA lost track of a bag that was used to carry samples during the first moon landing. A woman in Illinois bought the artifact for less than $1,000; on Thursday, it was sold for $1.5 million.